Dear Friends,

Are you ever frustrated when you try to share your faith? Have you ever said, “Why don’t they see?” Today’s devotional will explain and point you to the only One who can open their eyes. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,

John Janney

I Corinthians 2:14

““To know is to discern the nature of any thing, whether as true, or good, or beautiful…. What, therefore, the apostle here affirms of the natural or unrenewed man is, that he cannot discern the truth, excellence, or beauty of divine things. He cannot do it. It is not simply that he does not do it; or that he will not do it, but he cannot…. The difficulty is not merely in his will but in his whole inward state. The thing is foolishness to him…. And the reason is, because they are spiritually discerned. That is, because they are discerned through the Spirit. Therefore those who have not the Spirit cannot discern them. If the effect of sin on the human soul is to make it blind to the truth, excellence and beauty of divine things; if, as the apostle asserts, the natural, or unrenewed, man is in such a state that the things of the Spirit are foolishness to him, absurd, insipid and distasteful, then it follows that he can discern them only through the Spirit. His inward state must be changed by the influence of the Spirit before he can apprehend the truth and excellence of the gospel…. The only hope of the unrenewed, therefore, is in doing as the blind did in the days of Christ. They must go to him for spiritual discernment; and those who go to him he will in no wise cast out.” [Charles Hodge, A Commentary on 1 & 2 Corinthians, (London: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1857, 1859), p. 41-42]